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...roaring throng at last night's gala pep rally have it their way, the boys from the New Hampshire hills will be unable to paint the town green tonight for the first time in eight years...
Opening the festivities of Commencement week, Gene Krupa will bring his band here on Monday, June 16, for the gala Senior Spread, traditionally known as the Seniors' last filing at College life, it was announced last night by Thomas F. McGann '41, chairman of the Spread Committee...
...greybeards could remember a more sweeping reversal of form. Day before, in the President's Special, gala curtain raiser that preceded the regular openers, Franklin Roosevelt had done his duty like his predecessors before him (see cut), but the New York Yankees had whitewashed the Washington Senators, 3-to-0. That surprised no one. In only four out of his seven previous starts as the season's opening pitcher had President Roosevelt watched the Senators come through for him. But in their hometown opener at Yankee Stadium, with Mayor LaGuardia pitching the first ball, the Yankees looked like...
...Lorillard's idea was a colony of country cottages for sports lovers. H invited the best-bred families of New York up to see. On a gala opening day they arrived. They bucketed around in carriages, staring at gamekeepers who burst from the bushes in green and yellow costumes and Tyrolean hats. They cruised on the lake in barges manned by blue-coated crews. Delighted, they paid down hard cash for cottages...
...Ballet Theatre made its grand jete (soaring leap), into Manhattan a year ago. Last week it began its second Manhattan season, none too well-heeled, but hopeful of an extended engagement at the Majestic Theatre. Besides Gala Performance, it had some other new ballets: Three Virgins and a Devil (by Agnes de Mille), a Daliesque-Italian-primitive trifle in which a monkey-like Satan deftly garners three damsels; an enlarged version of Billy the Kid (by Eugene Loring, with music by Aaron Copland), a rich, loamy piece of Americana; Pas de Quatre (Anton Dolin), reconstructing the performance which the four...